5 Cities Relying on Coal
Filed under: Investing Most Americans probably think that coal is dead. Many coal towns are turning into ghost towns as the country moves away from using it to generate electricity in favor of cleaner,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Stock Still Has Problems
Filed under: Investing Mr. Softy is buzzing these days. Microsoft stock hit a new five-year high earlier this month, and it moved higher this past week on positive developments with its Windows 8.1...
View ArticleAvoid Massive Money Mistakes With a Mid-Year Portfolio Checkup
Filed under: Investing With all the volatility in the markets lately, the middle of the year is a great time to take a step back and look at how your investments have done. But how should you conduct...
View Article3 Reasons to Own Starbucks Stock
Filed under: Investing When does it stop? Starbucks stock just keeps soaring. Shareholders holding the stock over the past five years boast a 300% gain, trouncing the Dow Jones' paltry 32% increase in...
View Article"Man of Steel" Is a Winner, but Did DC Destroy Superman In the Process?
Filed under: Investing Man of Steel broke the June record for a box office debut and has raked in more than $400 million in ticket sales as of this writing. But is the payoff worth it? Fool contributor...
View ArticleWhy Ford's CEO Is Mad at Japan
Filed under: Investing Ford CEO Alan Mulally is a very reasonable guy -- but lately, he's been quoted in the business press with some very tough talk about Japan. Mulally says the Japanese government...
View ArticleMarket Checkup: Obesity
Filed under: Investing In this edition of The Motley Fool's Market Checkup, health-care analysts David Williamson and Max Macaluso discuss emerging treatments for obesity. From Mayor Bloomberg's...
View ArticleWill Obama's Climate Change Policy Kill Exelon Stock?
Filed under: Investing The POTUS has spoken: Climate change is real, it's dangerous, and we're going to do stuff to stop it. The president announced his latest climate change policy last week, and big...
View ArticleWhy DreamWorks' Next Flop Won't Matter
Filed under: Investing Box office hits can be hard to predict. Just ask DreamWorks Animation , whose 2012 results were torpedoed by poor ticket sales for its film Rise of the Guardians. However, the...
View ArticleIs GM Really an "American" Company?
Filed under: Investing In many ways it seems like a silly question: Of course General Motors is an American company. GM's headquarters is here, it has massive manufacturing and design operations here,...
View Article93 Days Till Obamacare. Are the Feds Ready?
Filed under: Investing There are few pieces of legislation that have worked their way into law with as many unknowns attached to them as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Also known as...
View ArticleGold Miners Face the Coming End of Expansionary Monetary Policy Ends
Filed under: Investing Expansionary monetary policy has been the order of the day under multiple rounds of quantitative easing, but last week, the Federal Reserve gave its strongest indication yet that...
View ArticleMuscle Cars and Electric Power: A Day of American Firsts
Filed under: Investing On this day in economic and business history ... Thomas Edison is more closely linked to the development and spread of electricity through the world than any other person -- with...
View ArticleHere's a Novel Idea for Barnes & Noble: Sell Some Actual Books
Filed under: Investing For the past year, Barnes & Noble has been rowing its little boat in unforgiving waters -- borne up and down on the waves, but pulled ever on by tireless effort....
View ArticleCan Olive Garden Save Darden Restaurants?
Filed under: Investing Darden Restaurants just closed out a tough year. Sales at the company's flagship Red Lobster, Olive Garden, and LongHorn Steakhouse locations fell hard this past winter as...
View ArticleTax Benefits and Penalties of Marriage
Filed under: TaxesGetty Images The Supreme Court has struck down part of a law that denied federal benefits to same-sex couples who were married in states that recognize their unions. The tax benefits...
View ArticleIs Pandora Hurting Artists, or Is It Paying Them Too Much?
Filed under: Investing The following video is from Friday's installment of The Motley Fool's Weekly Tech Review, in which host Chris Hill and analysts Eric Bleeker and Jason Moser look at the biggest...
View ArticleAnnuity Investors Life Enhances Portfolio with New Single Premium Fixed...
Filed under: Investing Annuity Investors Life Enhances Portfolio with New Single Premium Fixed Annuities CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Clients who desire inflation protection now have two new options...
View ArticleCinedigm Announces Closing of Underwritten Public Offering
Filed under: Investing Cinedigm Announces Closing of Underwritten Public Offering CENTURY CITY, Calif. & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. (NAS: CIDM) ,a global leader in...
View ArticleEileen A. Kennedy Joins Cardinal Bank as Senior Vice President, Commercial...
Filed under: Investing Eileen A. Kennedy Joins Cardinal Bank as Senior Vice President, Commercial Loan Officer TYSONS CORNER, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cardinal Bank (NAS: CFNL) is pleased to announce...
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